In general, be courteous to others. Attack ideas, not users. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any advocating or wishing death/physical harm, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban.

Actually, the most scandalous aspect of Ed Whelan's tweets is this: Whelan identified the location of the childhood home of a female friend of Dr. Ford's who was at the party—and who Dr. Ford has not named publicly.

Which suggests not only that the party Dr. Ford described did happen, but that Kavanaugh, Judge, or someone else (other than Dr. Ford) remembers it happening.

Also, Whelan accused a man who is currently a middle school teacher of attempted rape based on...the location of a house on google maps?...the fact that said two story house had a bedroom upstairs?...the fact that the man looked vaguely similar to Kavanaugh in a yearbook picture where they appear to be wearing what I assume to be a uniform blazer and tie?

IANAL, but I do know that written defamation is called libel. I'd further argue that Whalen's statements not only meet the burdens for proving libel against an ordinary citizen, the statements were made with actual malice and would even meet the higher standard of proof required for proving libel against a public figure.

That's right, this shit passes as "ethical" for the GOP, and not only that, smearing a private citizen who lives in the vicinity of an attempted rape based on Zillow maps is the pinnacle of conservative, judeo-christian ethical standards.

On Thursday night, conservative legal operative Ed Whelan sent a series of tweets suggesting that the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were likely a case of mistaken identity. His evidence was that a high school classmate of Kavanaugh’s kind of looked like him, and lived in a childhood home that sounded similar to the home where Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, described the assault taking place.

This is what happens when you stay in your echo chamber. Stuff that is clearly bullshit starts to seem reasonable. Weak arguments seem strong. And abhorrent behavior against "the other" is deemed acceptable.

We’re into the “second generation” of GOP bullshit. The original bullshitters knew they were full of it but were manipulating the masses. A lot of those that heard only the bullshit don’t know that and believe it to be true.

No, this is 'endgame' effect. A combination of absolute necessity and dream, they see the opportunity to gut, once and for all, this pesky system where poor people are allowed to tell rich people what they can and can't do.

You have to spin and attack at triple or quadruple the previous rate to keep up with that corrupt idiot. Even more of a challenge is the corrupt idiot can't keep his story straight, so you will have to scrap your first few attempts at deception before you arrive at whatever long term lie you have chosen.